Layer 3 Routing for Freescale Multicore Processors from Green Hills

“Our customers are increasingly interested in the security of their networking equipment and other connected devices,” said Lynelle McKay, senior vice president and general manager of Freescale’s Networking and Multimedia Group. “By applying Green Hills Software’s extensive security and networking experience to Freescale’s QorIQ platforms, customers are empowered to create high-performance, highly available, secure networked systems.”

“Adding perimeter-based security onto general purpose operating environments that form the core of many existing networking topologies and infrastructures is like putting a padlock on a screen door,” said David Kleidermacher, chief technology officer, Green Hills Software. “Telecommunications manufacturers are increasingly turning to the combination of Green Hills Software and Freescale for a high-performance networking solution that helps protect against the growing threat posed by malicious hackers and pervasive security vulnerabilities.”

The Green Hills Platform for Secure Networking is a comprehensive platform consisting of an operating system, development tools, and middleware that enable developers to create secure, powerful, high-performance, network-centric electronic products in the least time and at the lowest cost. In addition to Green Hills Software’s MULTI®, the industry’s leading embedded software development toolset, the platform offers a royalty-free license for the Green Hills INTEGRITY and velOSity™ operating systems, advanced file systems, dual IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP networking stack, web server, SSH, SSL, wireless communications and security software, Layer 3 IP routing software, USB, and a variety of other tightly integrated networking and application protocols.